(Elvis Impersonator!)
Day 238
Nashville music scene is so alive and full on..we love it. Anything goes from Blues, to Rockabilly, to jazz to country...it's all fantastic!
On Thursday night..I GOT KISSED BY THE KING!!!!
At a concert just out of Nashville by an Elvis impersonator called John Beardsley..it was cold, sweaty and rather ewww..but it was fun!
I guess it's 'almost' the next best thing to seeing Elvis..he was pretty good but who could ever have that charisma, charm and sex appeal that ELVIS does!!!!
Was funny going to an Elvis impersonator for the night that's for sure...we really got into the swing of things listening to all the songs..and he got into the pelvising.......hilarious night!
Nashville Country Music Hall of Fame!
On Friday we spent the day at the Nashville Country Music Hall of Fame and mixed with all the big names...and even sang a the Ryman Auditorium where all the country greats peform! Apparently this auditorium has the best acoustics in the US next to the Morman Tabernacle in Salt Lake City.
We sang a great solo there!!
It was so low noone could hear us...hehe
Hmm...
The atmosphere at the Hall of Fame was very nostalgic...we heard stories from Dolly Parton, Jimi Hendrix, Berry Cordy, Garth Brooks, Paul McCartney, Chet Williams....and of course Elvis, Johnny Cash and oh, so many others...
We heard some gossip about Keith Urban...he's in Nashville celebrating his 40th birthday..and he and Nicole like to have dinner at Emma's....which we went passed. We did wonder if we should go there for dinner too!!! Oh, we're such groupies! He is playing here on the 29th Nov..and i was wishing we were going to be here..but apparently he's the hot new star in Nashville..and all his concerts are a sellout along with Hannah Montana who is Billy Ray Cyrus' daughter!! Ok..enough of that..
Oh wait!...At one stage we THOUGHT we saw Willy Nelson..and if it wasn't him..it was someone that looked like him! Who knows who you'd see though..it's NASHVILLE!
We also went on a tour of Nashville to find out more about what's here...
Nashville is such an 'alive place'. Not just the music, but the general buzz of the place!
Some of the stories our driver told us was funny...he said in Nashville..there are over 1700 bars! There are something like over 600 churches as well...! He said they have to have so many churches so the people can repent!!!
He also said there are HEAPS of doctors..because there is a large teaching hospital here...so if anyone has a heart attack there will be a doctor on every street corner to help...and if we die....there will be a songwriter to write about it!!!
Such a sense of humour!
He also said Nashville was changing..cos he was seeing more sushi bars and men with purses and the original Nashvillites, like him, don't accept change that well!
He was so funny!
In between learning all about the music in Nashville, we went to the Post Office and the lady there gave us some free tickets to an art exhibition, The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America which Opened at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts!
So off we went to that...and it was so interesting comparing modern American art to all the European art we've seen over the year!
Friday night we went downtown Nashville to Broadway and there was music everywhere! It was great! We ended up in a place called "Tootsies" and there was a guy called Jake Myers playing Johnny Cash and Hank Williams...and other familiar songs which we liked so much we bought his CD!
Tootsies!!!
Unfortunately our stomachs got the better of us and we had to leave to seek out food and ended up with a pizza and thinking we had to get up early to catch the silly bus to Memphis...
NOT LOOKING FORWARD TO CATCHING THAT BUS!!
In fact..felt grumpy thinking about it.................
